you had to place a marble on the edge of the manhole cover (???) and try to push it to the center to win. there were different types of marble, if u had the rarest u were the most popular at school 3 reply
i got in a physical fight over this game as a kid, my friend would always fucking flip the board when he was losing the game and it irritated the hell out of me...still have the scar on my lip from that time...crazy days but damn I was happy reply
Detective, we would role-play crimes and play as witnesess, criminals, and detectives.
Split Family, a lot of my friends' parents were divorced, so we would alwaysys be divorced parents with our shit head kids. In particular, I was always the mom and would have to make the dad spend tim with their kids.
Dog Pile, one person goes down the slide ...... reply
One of my favs was Concentration! It was a popular cafeteria game in elementary school, it’s a clapping and word game. It was most often 2 people, and you clap to this rhythm while going back and forth saying an item in a specific category. If someone repeats something or doesn’t come up with something on time they lose. It always started like ...... 3 reply
In my country we hv this game similar "police and robber" game (i forgot what ppl call it) .
But like the person who's "it" can freeze the people he caught . So like , the whole game is abt the "it" catching the others and freezing them until everyone is frozen , they cant move when theyre frozen , if they move , theyre out . But the other people ...... 5 reply
In elementary school we played the " Carrot Pull" game ... it's a game where players are split into farmers and carrots. In the beginning one or two persons are the farmers and the carrots lie face down on the floor in a circle, holding each other's hands, while the farmers try to "harvest" them by pulling them away by their ankles. And when a carr...... 1 reply
Tag, hide n seek, jump rope, riding bikes, roller skating, pogs, playing house.
At school:
dodgeball, hopscotch, tether ball, boys vs girls (we would hit each other, we were all 4th graders).
I remember tug o war, but that might have been at some picnic or something, I don’t think it was at school. reply